For some, reason I’m still hung up on this. I was thinking about it this morning and I was pissed I didn’t write about the fact that:
1. They ask the contestants 50 questions beforehand and then choose the 21 to ask on the show. THEY KNOW THE RESULTS. So whenever they want the person out, they can just stick the question in they know they lied about. What the hell is this? How is this allowed to happen?
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2. So you’re telling me that that girl would tell the truth about being hung up on her ex-boyfriend, cheating on her husband, stealing money from her job, but lie when asked “do you think you’re a good person?” That is insane. Insane I tell you!
5 comments:
You know you're 100% right...but isn't all of this what makes this crazy show great!?!
I think it says in the rules that they are allowed to change their answer on TV if they know they lied earlier and think they will get caught. That said, it's still completely ridiculous.
Aren't there some laws that game shows have to abide by? I'm going to have to re-watch "Quiz Show"...or just go on wikipedia.
I don't know about this changing their answer thing. Is the opposite answer automatically "truthful". Don't they need to be on the lie detector for it?
Ugh, why am I spending so much time on this? I need to devote my time to more serious issues, like "The Gauntlet III".
Standards and Practices my friend. The show is accountable, their stance being.... the contestant has the chance to change their answer from the original test. They most certainly have an S&P person monitoring each answer.
this is terrible and has tons of inherent flaws but i agree they need to figure out how to hook them up to the machine on the air.
true, they have lawyers in standards and practices telling them what they can and can't do. But actually, they're getting by on a technicality. the laws enacted after the game show scandal state:
(a) Influencing, prearranging, or predetermining outcome
It shall be unlawful for any person, with intent to deceive the listening or viewing public—
(1) To supply to any contestant in a purportedly bona fide contest of intellectual knowledge or intellectual skill any special and secret assistance whereby the outcome of such contest will be in whole or in part prearranged or predetermined.
It's not a bona fide contest of intellectual knowledge or skill, so the law does not apply.
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